{"id":350,"date":"2007-12-01T10:43:49","date_gmt":"2007-12-01T18:43:49","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/01\/the-mindset-that-makes-smart-kids-fail\/"},"modified":"2014-09-03T15:44:37","modified_gmt":"2014-09-03T23:44:37","slug":"the-mindset-that-makes-smart-kids-fail","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/2007\/12\/01\/the-mindset-that-makes-smart-kids-fail\/","title":{"rendered":"The mindset that makes smart kids fail"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I just read this fascinating article (long, but worthwhile) about what makes smart kids successful and what doesn&#8217;t:<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.sciam.com\/article.cfm?id=the-secret-to-raising-smart-kids&amp;print=true\" target=\"_blank\">The Secret to Raising Smart Kids<\/a><br \/>\n<em>Hint: Don&#8217;t tell your kids that they are. More than three decades of research shows that a focus on effort?-?not on intelligence or ability?-?is key to success in school and in life.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The results of the research really ring true for me. I was a smart kid, and for a long time was able to skate easily by on my intelligence. I was much slower to learn the value of hard work and effort (when it comes to mental challenges). Even through college, I was able to complete most of my coursework successfully without really breaking a sweat, so it was a hard trap to get out of. It wasn&#8217;t until I entered the work force that I began learning this life lesson. I would have been much better off had I learned it as a kid.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m planning to apply this idea to raising Ruby, and hopefully I can keep her out of the &#8220;fixed mind-set&#8221; that I fell into.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I just read this fascinating article (long, but worthwhile) about what makes smart kids successful and what doesn&#8217;t: The Secret to Raising Smart Kids Hint: Don&#8217;t tell your kids that they are. More than three decades of research shows that a focus on effort?-?not on intelligence or ability?-?is key to success in school and in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-350","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-learning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=350"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":694,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/350\/revisions\/694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=350"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=350"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.mynameiskate.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=350"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}